Faysal  Ahmed

Faysal Ahmed

Birthday: 1985-07-11

Place of Birth: Yemen

Biography: In a professional capacity, Ahmed served as a Youth Program Coordinator at the Bedlam Theater in Minneapolis. He worked there on plays and poetry. He has also participated in an enrollment push for MNsure, a health insurance program in Minnesota. Ahmed and three other actors were picked from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis. According to the search casting director, Debbie DeLisi, the four were selected because they were "the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out." In early 2014, he revealed that he was going to Los Angeles by the spring season in order to continue his acting career. In 2016 he partook in A Stray that was directed by Musa Syeed.

Movies

Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagge...

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A Stray
A Stray

Trying to outrun his bad luck, a young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis seems like he just might make i...

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Watu Wote: All of Us
Watu Wote: All of Us

For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiet...

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smu...

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438 Days
438 Days

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything a...

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Gazelle
Gazelle

Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking political asylum in New York, is trying to keep his head abov...

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First Person Plural
First Person Plural

How can two people save the world? Love each other. On Thanksgiving Day, two Minneapolis filmmakers-...

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